On 3/8/10 6:21 PM, Myles Watson wrote: > > > On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 9:35 AM, ron minnich <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > The EFI lesson: if you're going to put an OS in FLASH, at least make > it a good one. > > Otherwise, you get EFI. > > Be careful where you're going here. You're starting to verge on > creating an OS. If you get that far, at least look at what's out there > before you go too much further. >
> I may have missed too much of this thread, but I thought it started > out as a "recovery" method. If it doesn't work well enough to load > Linux, why could it load other things? > Because Linux needs a lot more stuff than anything else. APIC setup, interrupts going, ... > I thought the point was that you want to be able to recover when only > serial works. Lots of things can fail between then and loading a payload. No, the point is really to get normal going without an OS after normal is misflashed, with only fallback left. If you're beyond that point you're a coreboot hacker and want a replacement flash chip or some more convenient methods to recover anyways. Stefan
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